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It’s probably been a minute given that you heard the name Rebecca Black, but the “Friday” singer is back with a brand-new single — on a Friday, no less. But never anticipate to hate-listen your way via this 1 “The Wonderful Divide” sounds practically nothing like “Friday.” It really is reflective of the singer-songwriter’s more mature pop style.

Black, now 19, told Entertainment Weekly that “The Great Divide” — the song has two versions: a stripped-down ballad and an EDM-tinged remix — is 1 of the most meaningful songs she’s ever written. “As I’ve grown up, I’ve realized there are certain individuals I’ve let into in my life that are not wholesome for me,” she said. “This song is about letting those people go and feeling power in realizing that is the best choice for you.”

With over 30 songs already recorded, Black hopes to independently release an EP this fall. “We’ve got some stuff that’s a tiny far more electronic, but I enjoy a lot of indie music, so we have stuff that is in that vein as well,” she mentioned.

When Black released the overly Auto-Tuned “Friday” back in 2011, the video became a viral sensation, hitting 48 million views in its initial week alone — but not for the young singer’s talent. Viewers relentlessly ridiculed Black, who was just 13 at the time, on the web and in genuine-life. Some even sent her death threats. Nonetheless, Black’s spirit in no way appeared to waver, nor did her passion for music. When she turned 17, the tenacious singer-songwriter moved to Los Angeles to try and jumpstart a true music career.

“‘Friday’ was a element of my life, but I do not know if I would say it is a component of me as an artist,” Black told EW. “So many men and women know me just by that song, but I’m significantly far more than that.”

Listen, Rebecca, as extended as you know which seat to sit in these days, we’re fine.

Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom, far left) moves from New York to California in pursuit of her ex (Vincent Rodriguez III, third from left) in the CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. (Also pictured: Donna Lynne Champlin, Pete Gardner and David Hull) Danny Feld/The CW hide caption

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When 28-year-old comedian Rachel Bloom won a very best actress Golden Globe this year for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, the Television show she stars in and co-produced, she told the crowd: “We practically didn’t have a show. We made a pilot for another network and they rejected it. And we sent the pilot to every other network in Hollywood and we got six rejections in one day and we felt like crap. But we knew it was great.”

Ultimately, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend identified a property at the CW, which premiered the show’s 1st season last fall. The musical-comedy-drama follows a mess of a young woman named Rebecca Bunch. Rebecca is productive at perform, but miserable at life. Soon after a likelihood meeting with her ex-boyfriend from summer time camp — that is right, summer time camp — she ditches her high-paying New York job and moves across the nation to his hometown of West Covina, Calif.

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Rebecca, played by Bloom, is at instances unbalanced, adorable and satirical, but often in crucial. Bloom tells NPR’s Audie Cornish about making a show that was designed to dismantle stereotypes.

Interview Highlights

On Rebecca’s depression and anxiousness

We always wanted the show to confront her mental illness head-on. The premise of the show is just a romantic comedy where it’s like: Oh, a woman’s unhappy she’s a lawyer and she moves to attempt to win back the man she loves. But if you appear at the realism in that, it’s like, OK, if a person actually did that, they would be a tremendously unhappy particular person. That is a not excellent issue to do. And so inherent in the premise of the show was Rebecca’s depression and anxiousness. And the whole show is about her studying to pursue her personal happiness as opposed to attempting to make other people pleased.

On how absolutely everyone on the show is a little crazy

We attempt not to view anyone on this show from a lens of labeling them we try to make certain that you recognize where every single character is coming from. But yes, Rebecca is a tiny crazy. And when she comes to West Covina, we recognize that everyone else on the show is a tiny crazy, too. …

There’s a enjoy triangle inherent in the show, and several men and women root for Rebecca and Greg, Josh’s very best friend. And I want to remind every person that when Greg and Rebecca 1st meet, he says to her, “You are fairly and smart and ignoring me, so you’re certainly my sort.” That is adorable. That’s not a healthful factor to say to someone. … It shows that he doesn’t respect himself and it shows his own pathologies.

On the show’s mission

The entire show is about deconstructing stereotypes and deconstructing folks and obtaining the truth beneath tropes. And so that’s why the title is so, kind of, provocative in that way. You know, employing the label “crazy ex-girlfriend” and viewing it from a feminist perspective and how does 1 come to embody that? What does love do to your brain? When you let love take you over is it because you happen to be utilizing it as an escape from your genuine difficulties?

On “The Sexy Getting Ready Song”

This is from the pilot and Rebecca is about to go to this celebration exactly where the object of her affection will be.

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And I consider there is this type of fetishizing of … a woman receiving prepared and she’s primping and she’s, you know, dusting a powder puff into powder and producing herself smell pretty. And, no: Acquiring prepared for a celebration is disgusting and frustrating and horrifying. And so … the contrast among not only like beauty and ugliness, but how items are portrayed in pop culture and in pop music and how factors truly are was really a lot our guide for that song.

On how they choose when a character is going to burst into song

There is an old saying when writing musical theater: … When the emotion is also sturdy for the characters to speak, they sing. And then when it really is as well strong to sing, they dance. So that’s our guide: What are the strongest emotional moments in the episode? And we use that to decide when we’ll break into a musical number. And the other issue was the type of emotional ups and downs of adore are best for a musical.

On regardless of whether the show will be renewed for a second season

Oh, gosh, you inform me. We’re hopeful. We’re nonetheless waiting on it. We’re hoping for very good news, but, you know, it is anything that’s so out of our manage — the identical point with ratings, the exact same factor with awards. All we can do is make the show we want and make it till an individual tells us to cease.

Hey you guyyyyyyys! We have much more “Goonies” news to report. For starters, no, a sequel is still not happening, yet. Nevertheless, this does not seem to stop star Sean Astin, who played asthmatic Mikey Walsh, from giving up hope. Goonies in no way say die, appropriate? Well, nearly.

If the lead Goonie himself is not admitting defeat, we shouldn’t either. The classic ’80s flick is currently living on with an off-Broadway, immersive theater knowledge. (Yes, really!) Whilst preparing for his appearance at Wizard Globe Tulsa convention this October, Astin told Tulsaworld.com, “I have mentioned and will usually say, that it’s not a question of if, but rather of when the sequel gets created.”

There is a downside to this whole “Goonies 2” notion, which Astin was swift to point out. He noted, “The precise makeup of it, I have no concept. Regardless of whether I will be in it, no idea. Whether they would even want the original cast in it, no notion.”

So, let’s backup for a sec. Astin is one hundred% convinced a sequel to the greatest film ever will happen at some point in life, but the original cast — the men and women who Created the film what it was — might not be in it?

Identical, Brand. We share your frustration.

Even though “The Goonies” sequel has turned into a single extended, unfunny joke, Astin is not backing down, and his reasoning for standing his ground makes a lot of sense. “It’s larger — it is truly bigger than everybody. It is bigger than even Steven [Spielberg], who created it. It is larger than Richard Donner, who breathed such strong life into it. It’s now a component of American cultural lore, and the studio has a lot to acquire from advertising it, so you can take it to the bank that folks will get to enjoy it more.”

Properly, he’s not wrong. The film created over $ 61 million by September 1985, according to IMDb. Due to the fact 30 years have passed because then, we’re going to go out on a limb and say the movie’s made even far more cash by now.

Interestingly, Astin admitted he and fellow castmate Corey Feldman, who played Clark “Mouth” Devereaux, came up with an notion for the sequel, but have been politely turned down. “We had excellent exciting working on that collectively and pitched it, and we have been respectfully dismissed.” Womp womp.

Astin tweeted out this message on Saturday, and his hashtags will continue to give us hope for the future.

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Extended before Hot Bench, King Solomon reportedly ended a dispute amongst two girls who claimed maternity of the identical child by ordering the youngster cut in two. But even the wisdom of Solomon would be insufficient to resolve the dispute at the center of Finders Keepers. That is because the foot claimed by two North Carolina guys had currently been severed from the leg that as soon as hosted it.

Initially, Bryan Carberry and Clay Tweel’s documentary is as alarming as it is amusing. The two central characters show significant deficits of decency and humility, as properly as frequent sense. But as the filmmakers comply with the story more than seven years, the film becomes richer and more empathetic. The events are absurd, but the emotions merely human.

The foot and attached calf in dispute belonged, in the classic sense, to John Wood. A kid of privilege, Wood had to submit to amputation following his leg was mangled in a 2004 private-plane crash. The wreck also killed his father, a furniture firm executive.

Wood decided to keep the foot, but struggled with specifically how to preserve it. Right after failed attempts at skeletonizing and freezing — the latter in a Hardee’s industrial fridge — Wood turned to do-it-oneself embalming. He left the partial limb in a BBQ smoker in a storage locker.

As Carberry and Tweel tell the story, Wood was possibly not the most stable man in Maiden, N.C. even ahead of the plane crash. Right after it, he was released from the hospital with a painkiller dependency. He ran out of money, began sleeping below a bridge, and stopped paying the rent on the storage locker. His mother, who seems serious in video interviews, declined to assist.

Enter Shannon Whisnant, a quick-talking entrepreneur who purchased the smoker at auction and discovered the leg inside. He began showing it for a modest cost, and promoting T-shirts, hats, and other paraphernalia. His new license plate study, “FTSMOKER.”

Whisnant produced some money from the foot, but those proceeds appear less critical to him than what happened soon after Wood went public with his request for the foot’s return. The appeal made the nearby news, and got the two antagonists invited to talk shows as far away as Germany. (Whisnant went, of course, but so did Wood.) It now seems inevitable that the dispute would eventually settled be on a Tv judge show.

More than the course of their house disagreement, the two leg claimers got to know every other pretty effectively. Shannon calls John “a spoiled brat” John worked up a wicked imitation of Shannon’s throaty voice. P.T. Barnum would have loved these guys, but they had to settle for an appearance on World’s Dumbest Hillbillies.

Clips of Tv commentary do not show significantly compassion for Wood and Whisnant smirking and eye-rolling are standard. But a far more nuanced story emerges from interviews with family members, which includes John’s sister, brother-in-law, and niece, and Shannon’s extended-suffering wife.

Although the two males are from distinct worlds, the film presents each as sons of demanding, difficult-to-please fathers. Observers suggest John is nevertheless battling to please his parents, which includes the a single who’s gone. Of maintaining the leg, John’s sister says, “That is his dad.” Childhood memories and parental expectations can endure longer than flesh — even flesh preserved in a BBQ smoker.